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Late and erratic rainfall has left thousands of families in the Gambia facing the prospect of lean months ahead.
In many villages along the Gambia’s Central River region, families rely on agriculture and fishing for income and food. But crops are withering in the fields, and the lack of rain...

Last year’s rainy season was a failure in many localities in Mali. The rains – usually at their heaviest between June and September – arrived late and ended early in Bandiagara a district in the Mopti region of Central Mali, severely affecting some of the region’s most vulnerable...

The Sahel – a region that stretches across southern fringe of the Sahara desert– is home to some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people.
In 2011 and 2012, a combination of fierce drought and conflict meant millions of children, women and men were in need of aid simply to survive...

UN Humanitarian Chief Valerie Amos has warned that tens of millions of people have started the new year in need of urgent humanitarian support and that the capacity and resources of the international humanitarian system are stretched “to the limit”.
“We enter 2014 with multiple, severe...

The United Nations and its partners have today launched their humanitarian plans for 2014 with appeals totalling US$12.9 billion to support 52 million people in 17 countries with essential, life-saving aid. More than half of this funding is needed to support humanitarian efforts in Syria and neighbouring...